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The Romans did the exact same thing to the rest of Europe during the Roman Empire (not the Holy one, the Classical one). The rest of Europe chose to learn from their ways instead of complaining.
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She keeps asking "what is white" but never wants to understand that "sometimes it's just a shorthand for the Caucasian major race of humans" and yes even though it is a color name it does not refer to skin color but rather it is a SHORTHAND for bone structure.
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Race and ethnicity are like language and dialect, one can choose where to draw then line. Benjamin Franklin was correct in identifying the peoples of England, Normandy and Saxony as related in being the Northwestern Europeans in the strictest sense.
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@azborderlands "Stop referring to Native Americans is being Asian. That’s a white man’s theory, and so far it’s only for the Alabaskan Inuit, tribes of Canada, the Apache and Navajo.." All "Native Americans" have been very confidently connected genetically with certain central Siberian tribes. They even found their names and the original tribes still exist by the tens of thousands. You can go there and see how they look exactly like them. It is no longer just a theory when you can visit their ancestors in central Siberia and see how they look like them today in living flesh.
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Wrong. South Italy is genetic Greek, north Italy is genetically Celtiberian.
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" when speaking of a people group it’s better to refer to them by the names that were used at that time. " I agree. So please stop calling the Irish "Celts".
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@bluetinsel7099 "When it comes to the Celts and the Irish, the Celts are a people group throughout Europe even in Spain etc. with their languages and customs and cultures etc. where as Irish is the name of people from the land mass of Ireland and that can be simulate to calling various groups of people American even though their ancestry is not necessarily American." That is where you are not up-to-date with all the historical findings. Actually "Celts" was not "a people group throughout Europe", that is only the usage of certain sloppy ancient Greek writers. Other more careful Greek writers like Strabo and Siculus and even Romans like Emperor Augustus (after Caesar) knew very well that the Celts were only certain tribes in Gallia Narbonensis who called themselves "Celts" along with western Iberians, including Lusitanians, who all called themselves "Celts" (Celti, Celtici, Celtius, Celtiati, etc) in their own tombstones. Strabo himself said that the Greeks carelessly "generalized the name of the Celts of Narbo (southern France) to all Galatians". Hence "Celts" is a proper name of specific people in western Iberia and southern France just like the name "Irish" is a proper name of specific people in an island.
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@susancrawford5927 Exactly. As an example, from the bone structure - specifically the skull - the craniological analysis, as it is called, despite the stereotypical differences in skin tones between southern Europeans and northern Europeans, finds them virtually indistinguishable, and it is rather that both of them group together as long-skulled as opposed to a more central European type which is broad-skulled and bridges the geographical gap between the northern and the southern Europeans. However, these methods have today been largely superseded by genetic analysis, in particular what is called genetic drift, to define the degree of relationship between populations - which in itself reveals surprising results not obvious at first sight, such as Iberians being more similar to Swiss Germans than Swiss Germans are similar to southern Germans, and as similar as the Orkney are from the Manx, which you wouldn't think considering Portugal is 3.3x farther from Switzerland than Orkney is to Manx, and 6.4x farther from Switzerland than southern Germany is from Switzerland. The source is most Fst (fixation index) genetic distance tables provided as supplemental materials to most papers on this subject. Iberians are also closer to the English than Iberians are to northern Italians. So it is very counter-intuitive unless you understand the Bell-Beaker phenomenon happened as the last major genetically defining feature of Iberians, the rest after that being trivial contributions. Olalde et al (2019) revealed Iberians are 60% Germany_Beaker in DNA which is composed of half Yamnaya and half EEF, and whose people looked like today's Britons (by that I mean the Welsh).
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@CheekyCreole How is it wrong? It is not wrong. Maybe you think of "color of skin" but most people who see race think only in terms of "genetics" and not "skin color".
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She wants to pull at your heartstrings by arguing we should identify with blacks.
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@samanthab1923 American Italians are all from the south of Italy where they are darker and genetically Greek. Most of Italy however is genetically Italic (central Italy) and Celtiberian (north).
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21:28 - these two things don't contradict each other and there's nothing insane about it. Saying "whiteness only extends to the Caucasian race" is not the same as to say "whiteness extends to the whole Caucasian race", it simply means "whiteness affects only the Caucasian race" and hence, because the Japanese are Asiatic, they do not be considered.
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@bluetinsel7099 lol no, you are dealing with Romanticist ideations, Japheth etc, none of that is current, it's all mythology.
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@bluetinsel7099 "So genealogy is still current." Cite one current academic that mentions "Japheth" in the context of ancient peoples, Celts, etc.
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@MCLottotv Not much darker, they were pale EEFs (Early-European Farmers) with around 30% Yamnaya.
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America (according to its first Naturalization Acts) was explicitly a country for white people of good moral standards. As such only white people can be truly American in the originally intended sense. Hence why all other groups are hyphenated.
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"All people belong to the same species, that's why we can have offspring with each other that can in turn do the same thing." Except Rh negative people, without the artificial help of modern medicine.
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@jirehguy "Race isn't genetic because people can make mistakes" lol what
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@MsPeabody1231 genetically a mixed-race child is less related to their parents than their parents are related to a random person of their same race each.
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@bajojohn "the thing is, the Roman Empire never claimed to be the moral authority for the entire world. " Yes they did, it was manifest destiny for them almost like it was for Americans. They saw themselves as superior to all and as spreaders of civilization, much like the white man's burden for Americans.
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